I started off the week with a meeting with Simona on potential lesson opportunities alongside the potential of me being a part of a new program call PTAC which is a remote teens council for students in Minnesota outside of the twin cities.
Wednesday I was able to participate with the PTAC’s first meeting. The group was small but mighty, a total of five students. They were all eager to get to know each other and start this endeavor. I’m really excited to see what they learn and pull from this experience.
A day later I was able to participate in the WACTAC and observe. They had a lovely guest speaker Carolyn Lizard. Carolyn just finished putting up their show at the Walker, and will open 02/12 here is the link to their show. Their work explored collectivity, dependency and community. Their works explores ableism and how we as a community and spaces can reframe our idea on access and how we approach it. We can see accessibility rules as a way to show art to more people rather than a cumbersome extra step to go through for legal means. This was an absolutely lovely artist to talk with WACTAC students due to their research project partly surrounding accessibility. Carolyn shared their website with resources on accessibility. This website is so helpful in so many arenas. It has writings explaining and reframing access as well as accommodations, and functional budgeting info.
Next week WACTAC is back on-sight! I’m looking forward to see all the students in person.